Come to my office, we can review some potentials, I've got a folder of candidates.
"Justin, wait here for a few minutes, we'll just be in the next room." Margaret said.
"Okay Mom."
The pair went in the next room and shut the door. Justin smiled, his work grabbed the attention of what were likely the two most powerful women at the base, he was proud.
A moment later, another woman walked in in a lab coat, she was probably in her young 20s. she halted upon seeing Justin and squinched her eyes in confusion, looked around and asked, "Umm, why are you here?"
"I'm here to test a new and exciting experimental drug." Justin beamed, this was the most important he had ever felt. His work is finally getting respect. All his studying has finally paid off.
The new woman looked at her clipboard, flipping through pages and notes... "Oh... I just didn't realize we were... this can't be right. Where is your parent or guardian?" the woman asked looking concerned.
"Oh! Yeah, my mom is in there with Dr. Abrams, Major Margaret Smith."
The woman took a step but faltered at your mother's name and title. Recognition flashed across her face. "And you are..."
"Justin Smith" Justin gave her a look to let her know that he thought this woman was acting weird.
"I see, and you are here to test experimental new therapies?"
"That sounds much more professional... Yeah. That's what I'm here to do."
"I'm sorry, I just expected you to be a little older, but you're right, this is the dawning of a new age! This therapy is really exciting!"
"You already heard about it? Wow, word travels fast! I had no idea... what are you doing?"
"Oh, this is just some rubbing alcohol." The woman said, "Standard procedure... nothing to worry about. What do you know about the effects of the therapy? Look over there for me."
Reignited, Justin began going into detail on the serum he developed and was completely distracted looking in the corner of the room, "... So with regular use I believe that it has the potential to enhance muscle gain by 3-400% year over year, indefinitely, can you imagine? Yeah, the military can use it but think! Physical therapy, patients recovering from being in a coma, 3-4x faster, the wonders it could have on quality of later life. Non competition physical aesthetics... people like me would be able to look like bodybuilders with... ow. What are you doing?"
"All done, you had a few things wrong though." The woman offered. "This drug works very differently from how you described. This drug works off the pituitary and endocrine system, you only need the one dose you just received and it's going to have some of the effects you mentioned, but work faster."
"What?" Justin noticed the small container sitting on the clipboard, the syringe in her hand, the conversation they just had suddenly fell into place. They had been discussing different drugs... he is here to test his drug... not be a tester for their drug.
"Is there an antidote for the therapy you just administered?" Justin asked trying to keep himself composed.
"Haha, that's just nerves sweetie. Of course not, you're going to be physically ready to become a soldier in a few months. The ride might be rough but like you mentioned, bulking up won't be a problem."
"Wait, is that like a testosterone shot? That'll stunt my growth, I don't want to stop growing at 5'1''!"
"Oh! I expected your mom would have explained it to you in more detail. No this supercharges everything for a short time... healing is faster, growth is faster, we've had minimal results on adults and have been wanting to test on people under 18 as their results are most effective..." She was beginning to pick up that something was wrong.
"So my puberty is supercharged, but not precocious or halted like if I was taking testosterone therapy... meaning...?"
"You are going physically become a normal, albeit athletic, 20-25 year old in the next 3-6 months. The mental effects are harder to pinpoint age wise but you should mature faster mentally too. Like I mentioned, thus far we've only been able to use this on men 18+. We've had several cases which went through their final grow spurt or two just as they would have normally, you have nothing to worry about."
"Our very own super soldier serum."
"Basically."
Jeremy got off the table and knocked on the door... His mom looked up in frustration and answered a moment later, "What is it? We're almost done!"
"Mom, there's been some miscommunication and I'm apparently going to become a super soldier... in 3-6 months."